~No. 396Certificate in
Lieu of Lost or Destroyed Discharge Certificate
U.S. Army to Frank
W. Gonyier
State of Iowa, Allamakee county; Filed for record the
20th day of Feb. A.D. 1936 at 10:00 o'clock A.M., Emmett
C. Sullivan, Recorder
To All Whom It May
Concern:
Know Ye, that Frank W. Gonyier, #18773226, a Private of
Truck Company #4, First Corps Artillery Park, United
States Army, who was enlisted on the sixteenth day of
January, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo. to serve for a period of the
emergency was Honorably Discharged from the service of
the United States on the eleventh day of August, one
thousand nine hundred and nineteen, by reason of
demobilization.
This Certificate is given under the provisions of the Act
of Congress approved July 1, 1902, "to authorize the
Secretary of War to furnish certificates in lieu of lost
or destroyed discharges," to honorably discharged
officers or enlisted men or their widows, upon evidence
that the original discharge certificate has been lost or
destroyed, and upon the condition imposed by said Act
that this certificate "shall not be accepted as a
voucher for the payment of any claim against the United
States for pay, bounty, or other allowances, or as
evidence in any other case."
Given at the War Department, Washington, D.C., this
thirteenth day of May, one thousand nin hundred and
twenty-five.
By Authority of the Secretary of War:
(signed) Wm. Hornfield, Adjutant General
Transcript
from Record of Service
Prior service: None
Battles, engagements, expeditions: Aisne-Marne;
Oise-Aisne; Meuse Argonne
Wounds received in service: None
Decorations, Medals, Badges, citations: None
Service overseas: France
Sailed from U.S. July 19, 1918
Arrived at port on return to U.S. August 3, 1919
Character given on discharge: [blank]